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Show TRAIN WtlUCK AT SALT LtK' Hla (Irsn.l. I imftr nirlkM An f" Bllfh-lnilo.r HIIIkI fllodrande Western passenger t,,n No. 1 waa wrecked In the rlaa yards Monday afternoon by strlf? an open switch V nglnrer Tfm Konold was killed and every car" the track except tho I'ullinan A" cara were badly wrecked No pssn gcr were hurt A freight crew switching lo e yards left the awllih open at J" cement works at Moth Houth, ' pecttng to git hack before a t'n could arrive They were surprlsd1 the apearanro of the passenger wWh was two hours late, and whlstlod " signal to reverse, which washeardoJ answered by the paateuger en but the apeel waa too great lo iV' When the switch was struck the en and five coaches left the track ad atarted for the lement worka whri number of men were working, crakhlg Into the building and doing dainagl estimated at SI 000. and alla-htly It Jurlng a workman named John Ha klua It la a miracle that it number i factory hands were not killed Whei tho train left the rails Knglnrer KonoU seeing what he auppoae I certain deatk ahead, cllmed down from hla cab t the deck of hla engine and made a lei; for hla life. He struck against a pile of cement rocks, waa thrown bad under the wheels of the mall car ail waa literally ground lo pieces. Tbi unfortunate man was dragged (or sonu distance, and when the horribly mute lated body vs found, It was under til rear trucks of the mall car Juslopp site the point where the train ha I ton tha corner out of the cement factory. lha body was cut In two at the abdomen, ab-domen, the limbs were acatterel fof loma dlstancu and tho body was w lorn and mangled that It waeticceatar; to gather up tha icnialna In a sack. Ills fireman remained on the cngtoa nnd waa not hurl. |